The world acclaimed artist, Bharti Kher has consistently explored ways of art-making through a wide variety of materials since the beginning of her professional artistic practice in the 1990s.
Her life-size sculpture of a dying elephant, entitled “The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own” and created in 2006, remains one of her most iconic works and endures as a benchmark of maturity for contemporary art from India.
Kher’s latest show, Strange Attractors, opened at Nature Morte on December 5 . Hosted at Dhan Mill compounds, the exhibition is a showcase of a selection of recent sculptures from 2017 to 2021. Kher usually ruminates over materials, found objects, and works-in-progress in her studio for many years, allowing their final avatars to coalesce at their own pace.
The title of the exhibition, “Strange Attractors,” refers to a mathematical concept elaborated within Chaos Theory, that all matter is unique and non-arbitrary.
Never closing in on…